Child&#39;s toilet.



Patented Sept. 19,1916. I

WITNES8E8 ATTORNEY8 BETTY BRENT COOKE, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

CHILDS TOILET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 19, 1916.

Application filed October 26, 1915. Serial No. 57,975.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BETTY BRENT OOOKE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Louisville, in the county of Jefierson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Childrens Toilets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to toilets, and the main object thereof is to provide devices of this class whereby the need for placing a child upon conventional toilets, as in public places, is avoided, thereby avoiding all possibility of the contraction of disease, and also overcoming the present practice on the part of mothers in such places of soiling the floors rather than have their children exposed to diseases from the seats of the public toilets now provided.

My invention is fully described in the following Specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which like characters refer to like parts in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention; and Fig. 2 is a central, longitudinal, section therethrough.

In the drawings forming a part of this application I have shown a platform 3 of about three inches in height resting upon the floor of a compartment and having an opening 4 therein provided with a rearwardly directed guard 5 at its forward edge and a forwardly directed guard 6 at its rearward edge, the former being considerably higher than the latter, and also of greater length, these guards being preferably curved, as shown. Beneath the opening 4k is a bowl 7 of relatively great depth at its forward side and of relatively slight depth at its rearward side to provide a well de- Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the fined incline from rear to front to the discharge pipe 8. Leading to the rear side of the bowl 7 is a pipe 9 connected with the flush-tank 10 having the usual or any desired valve button 11, whereby the bowl may be flushed.

My intentis to provide these toilets in all places of a public character, particularly in womens toilets, where mothers or others are likely to bring very young children, and the child merely squats over the bowl in the demands of nature, thus not soiling the floor nor exposing itself to contagion, and the bowl may be flushed by either the child or its attendant.

My invention is very simple, though highly desirable over present conditions, and I reserve the right to make any desired structural changes which will not depart from the spirit of the invention nor be outside the scope of the following claim.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A device of the class described, comprising a platform having a central depression forming a bowl, provided with a discharge pipe leading from said depression, an ele vated front guard for directing the urine from a user downwardly and prevent the rising of spray, a water supply pipe directed into said depression, and an elevated rear guard for said supply pipe.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BETTY BRENT COOKE.

Witnesses:

J. D. WRIGHT, S. JoHNsoN.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

